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Peticion-para-los-derechos-de-la-mujer
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· 1 message · 25 Feb 1999
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asunto: En pro de los derechos de las mujeres en Afganistan Fecha : 13 Febrero 1999 18:19 Por favor firma abajo para apoyarnos e incluir tu ciudad Luego copia y manda este e-mail al mayor numero de gente posible. Si recibes esta lista con mas de 50 nombres, por favor manda una copia a: sar...@brandeis.edu Si decidieras no firmar, por favor considera esta carta y la peticion. Gracias. Es mejor copiarla que simplemente reenviar la peticion. Melissa Buckheit, Brandeis University --- El gobierno de Afganistan esta iniciando la guerra en contra de las mujeres. La situation esta empeorando tanto que en la editoral del Times se ha comparado el trato hacia las mujeres como el holocausto de los judios en Polonia. Desde que el Taliban tomo el poder en 1996, las mujeres han sido obligadas a usar el burqua y han sido golpeadas y apedreadas en publico por no usar el atuendo que se les exige, aun cuando esto signifique que no tengan la malla cubriendo sus ojos. Una mujer fue golpeada a muerte por un grupo enojado de fundamentalistas por que enseno su brazo por accidente cuando estaba manejando. Otra mujer fue apedreada a muerte por tratar de salir del pais con un hombre que no era su familiar. A las mujeres no se les permite trabajar o salir en publico sin un familiar hombre; las mujeres profesionistas, tales como educadoras, traductoras, medicos, abogadas, artistas y escritoras han sido retiradas de sus trabajos y enviadas a sus casas, y esa opresion se ha extendido hasta alcanzar niveles alarmantes. No hay forma de saber con certeza las cifras de suicidio entre la sociedad islamica extrema, pero trabajadores de ayuda estiman que el numero de suicidios entre mujeres que no pueden tener acceso a buenos tratamientos medicos por depresiones (y que optan por matarse en vez de vivir), ha aumentado notablemente. Los hogares donde una mujer se presenta deben tener sus ventanas pintadas para que la mujer no pueda ser vista por extranos. Ellas deben usar zapatos silenciosos para no ser nunca oidas. Las mujeres viven temiendo por sus vidas por cometer la mas minima falla de comportamiento. Ademas por que no pueden trabajar, las mujeres que no cuentan con parientes hombres estan muriendose de hambre o pidiendo limosna, a pesar de que cuenten con doctorados. Casi no hay facilidades medicas para las mujeres y los trabajadores de ayuda han abandonado el pais en protesta llevandose medicina, psiquiatras y otras cosas necesarias para atender al altisimo numero de mujeres con grandes depresiones. En uno de los pocos hospitales para mujeres, un reportero encontro cuerpos de mujeres sin vida que yacian inmoviles sobre camas, atados en sus burqua, incapaces de hablar, comer o hacer algo, mas que morir lentamente. Otras mujeres parecian haber enloquecido y fueron vistas acurrucadas en las esquinas asustadas o llorando, muertas de miedo. Un medico esta considerando que cuando se dejen de examinar los cuerpos, se ponga en frente de la residencia del presidente como una forma de protesta pacifica. Hemos llegados hasta el punto donde el termino "violacion de derechos humanos" se ha vuelto algo incomprendible . Los esposos tienen el poder de vida y muerte sobre los familiares de las mujeres, especialmente sus esposas, pero una muchedumbre enojada tiene tanto derecho de apredrear o golpear a una mujer, casi hasta matarla, por el simple hecho de ensenar un centimentro de piel o por ofenderlos en la mas minima manera. Las mujeres gozaban de libertad para trabajar, conducir y vestirse como querian, e incluso salir solas en publico hasta que todo cambio en 1996 - es la rapidez de este cambio la principal razon de la depresion y el suicidio-. Mujeres, que alguna vez eran educadoras, medicos o que solian ejercer su libertad son ahora severamente oprimidas y tratadas como sub-humanos en el nombre del partido fundamental derechista islamico. No es su tradicion o cultura lo que los hace tratar a las mujeres asi, eso es ajeno a las circunstancias, es el extremismo que hay en esas culturas, donde el fundamentalismo manda, lo que los hace asi. Cada persona tiene el derecho de una existencia digna, aun si son mujeres en un pais musulman -en una parte del mundo que los americanos no entienden-. Si nosotros podemos amenazar las fuerzas militares en Kosovo en el nombre de los derechos humanos por causa de los Albaneses, ciertamente podemos expresar de manera pacifica nuestra protesta por los ultrajes, los asesinatos y las injusticias cometidas encontra de las mujeres por parte de el Taliban. ******** ACUERDO: Firmando esta carta, estoy totalemente de acuerdo que el tratamiento actual de las mujeres en Afganistan es completamente intolerable y que la situacion actual no sera tolerada. Los derechos de las mujeres no son cualquier cosa y es inaceptable para las mujeres que en 1999 sean tratadas como sub-humanos y objetos. La igualdad y el trato digno es un DERECHO, no una libertad, en cualquier lugar donde uno viva. ******** 1) Leslie London, Cape Town, South Africa 2) Tim Holtz, Boston, MA 3) Joyce Millen, Cambridge, MA 4) Diane Millen, Falls Church, Va. 5) Bill Millen, Falls Church, Va. 6) Milt Eisner, McLean VA 7) Harriet Solomon, Springfield, VA 8) Arlene Silikovitz, West Orange, NJ 9) Susanna Levin, New Rochelle, NY 10) Ruth Slater, New Rochelle,NY 11) Elisabeth Keane, Westport, CT 12) Mercedes Lopez-Morgan, Chappaqua, NY 13) Pete Morgan, Chappaqua, NY 14) Aaron Cela, Chappaqua, NY 15) Michelle Lee, San Francisco, CA 16) Karen Muiter, San Mateo, 17) Nate Walker, North Hills, CA 18) Jasmyn Hatam San Jose, CA 19) Josephine Thompson, Pacific Grove, CA 20) Donnie Gallegos, San Francsico, CA 21) Kate Lauer, New York, 22) Melanie H. Stein, New York, NY 23) Emanuela Silvestri, Brussels, Belgium 24) Thinam Jakob, Brussels, Belgium 25) Gillian Kenny, Brussels, Belgium 26) Barbara Kjfr, Brussels, Belgium 27) Kirsten Christensen, Brussels, Belgium 28) Sandrine Branquet, Brussels, Belgium 29) Grazia Fiorello-Reina, Brussels, Belgium 30) Daniele Scherma, Palermo, Italy 31) Piera Ingrassia,Palermo,Italy 32) Rosanna Cataldo, Palermo, Italy 33) Massimo Lombardo, Berlin Germany 34) Cristiano Lombardo, Palermo Italy 35) Salvatore Licata, Palermo Italy 36) Franca Antonia Mariani, Bologna, Italy 37) Maria Teresa Brintazzoli, Bologna, Italy 38) Alan Pulverness, Norwich, England 39) Nick Owen, Chiswick, London, W4 40) Tony Wright, Ivybridge, Devon, UK 41) Linda Wright, Ivybridge, Devon, UK 42) Ross Lynn, Plymouth, Devon, UK 43) Carol Lethaby, Guadalajara, Mexico 44) Luz Maria Munoz de Cote, Guanajuato, Mexico 45) Chiara Comes, Morristown, NJ 46) Rolando Rogers-Reyes, Mexico, Mexico 47) Cynthia Rogers Reyes, Culiacan, Sinaloa , Mexico 48) Rogelio Molina Miguel, Mexico DF, Mexico ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Women's Rights in Afghanistan Date : 13 February 1999 18:19 Please sign at the bottom to support, and include your town. Then copy and e-mail to as many people as possible. If you receive this list with more than 50 names on it, please e-mail a copy of it to sar...@brandeis.edu Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill the petition. Thank you. It is best to copy rather than forward the petition. Melissa Buckheit, Brandeis University --- The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. The situation is getting so bad that one person in an editorial of The Times compared the treatment of women there to the treatment of Jews in pre-Holocaust Poland. Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. One woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally exposing her arm while she was driving. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors, lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and stuffed into their homes, so that depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide rate among women, who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions, has increased significantly. Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted, so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehaviour. Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging on the street, even if they hold PhDs. There are almost no medical facilities available for women, and relief workers, in protest, have mostly left the country, taking medicine and psychologists and other things necessary to treat the sky-rocketing level of depression among women. At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear. One doctor is considering, when what little medication that is left finally runs out, leaving these women in front of the president's residence as a form of peaceful protest. It is at the point where the term 'human rights violations' has become an understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative freedom, to work, dress generally as they wanted, and drive and appear in public alone until only 1996 -- the rapidity of this transition is the main reason for the depression and suicide; women who were once educators or doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated as sub-human in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their tradition or 'culture', but is alien to them, and it is extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule. Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women in a Muslim country in a part of the world that Americans do not understand. If we can threaten military force in Kosovo in the name of human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, we can certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice committed against women by the Taliban. ********** STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women in Afghanistan is completely unacceptable and that the current situation will not be tolerated. Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere and it is unacceptable for women in 1999 to be treated as sub-human and as so much property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not a freedom, wherever one lives. **********
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